Virgin Media announces dramatic shake-up today – how it will affect you

If you’re struggling to find your favourite channels on Virgin’s planner today you are probably not alone. The popular provider has just rolled out a massive update to its telly platform with a swathe of channels swapping positions on the guide. In fact, a total of 86 services have now moved meaning they are no longer where you found them before.

The update, which rolled out overnight, includes changes to channels such as MTV, ITV, Discovery and Sky Documentaries.

All of Virgin’s set-top boxes including TiVo will be affected by the changes and there’s no way to revert back to the original channel numbers.

Explaining more, Virgin Media told Express.co.uk, “On 4 July, we will change the numbers of 86 channels in our TV guide across TiVo, V6, TV360 and Stream. These changes are designed to move popular general entertainment channels into more prominent numbers in the TV guide, and moving +1 channels into a dedicated channel range between 300-399. Customers will not need to do anything – their boxes will automatically update overnight.”

If you are worried about future recordings then these shouldn’t be affected with Virgin confirming that all series links will remain active.

Here are some of the channels moving place on Virgin’s planner.

CHANNEL CHANGES FROM VIRGIN MEDIA

• 5 USA – NOW Ch120 – was Ch 153

• 5 Star – NOW Ch126 – was Ch 151

• Sky History HD – NOW Ch133 – was Ch 270

• Great! TV – NOW Ch170 – was Ch 189

• Discovery HD – NOW Ch177 – was Ch 250

• Animal Planet HD – NOW Ch178 – was Ch 251

• National Geographic HD – NOW Ch183 – was Ch 266

• Sky Documentaries HD – NOW Ch188 – was Ch 277

• MTV Music – NOW Ch280 – wass Ch 310

• E4 Extra – NOW Ch287 – was Ch 337

• E4 + 1 – NOW Ch306 – was Ch 146

• ITV 2 +1 – NOW Ch315 – was Ch 116

• Discovery +1 – NOW Ch377 -was Ch 258

• National Geographic +1 – NOW Ch383 – was 267

• Gold +1 – NOW Ch324 – was Ch194